Full Description
This concise guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students' school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a wide variety of religions as well as atheist practices.
Each chapter covers origins, beliefs, practices, and common misunderstandings and stereotypes, as well as key holidays, religious dress, and dietary restrictions that can be accommodated in school. This book will help educators avoid stumbling over stereotypes so they can better engage students and their families and foster culturally responsive classrooms. Teachers of all grade levels will come away feeling more confident about identifying areas of cultural and religious practice where support for your students may be needed.
You will also have the tools to recognize the diversity of religious and cultural practices that students bring to the classroom, and to see that unfamiliar religious and cultural practices are assets to be cultivated and not signs of deficiency.
Contents
1. Why Care About Religion? Principles of Religious Literacy 2. African Diaspora Religions 3. Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, and Anti-religious Groups 4. Baha'I 5. Buddhism 6. Chinese Religions: Falun Gong 7. Chinese Religions: Traditional Chinese Religions 8. Christianity: Overview 9. Christianity: Amish, Mennonite, and other Anabaptist-descended Churches 10. Christianity: Anglican and Episcopal 11. Christianity: Baptist 12. Christianity: Black Churches 13. Christianity: Christian Science 14. Christianity: Jehovah's Witness 15. Christianity: Latter-day Saints 16. Christianity: Lutheran 17. Christianity: Methodist, Moravian, Wesleyan, and Holiness Churches 18. Christianity: Orthodox 19. Christianity: Pentecostal and Holiness 20. Christianity: Presbyterian and Other Reformed Churches 21. Christianity: Quaker (Friends) 22. Christianity: Restorationist (Churches of Christ, Disciples of Christ) 23. Christianity: Roman and Eastern Catholic 24. Christianity: Seventh-Day Adventist 25. Christianity: Unitarian Universalist 26. Hinduism: Overview 27. Hinduism: Shaiva 28. Hinduism: Shakta 29. Hinduism: Vaishnava 30. Islam: Overview 31. Islam: Nation of Islam 32. Islam: Shia 33. Islam: Sunni 34. Jainism 35. Judaism: Overview 36. Judaism: Conservative 37. Judaism: Orthodox 38. Judaism: Reform 39. Neo-Paganism 40. North American Indigenous Religions 41. Scientology 42. Sikhism 43. Zoroastrianism
